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I agree ... and I'll extend it by asking why you'd "dis" the other languages he attacks. Once again the old adage is proved: "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Let's get over the JS insecurity, admit it's useful for some tasks and that it sucks for others and get on with some useful discussion about when each of those statements is true.
While I like your comment I do wonder whether it may rest on a misunderstanding of the work 'reductive'. I believe it is being used in the philosophy of science sense wherein reality can be understood in terms of the workings of components. It stands in contrast with holism, for example Quine's semantic holism.
If you have the attention of people now, let them play with the Alpha version now so you can learn truth fast about how others perceive the problem, and your hypothesis that your app has the ability to solve it.

Also, don't sweat all of the negative posts. It is way too easy to pick holes in the work of others, especially at an early stage.

Do however look for the common themes commenters dislike, as your next code/design/pr effort can address these.
Paul Ekman has extensively documented micro expressions, which are trace views of the signal. Studying them will teach you the normal, longer expressions too, that's how I learned.

How exactly does asperger's work? For me the learning process went:

Learn that crinkles under the eye mean smile is real --> observe it quite a bit --> learn to see it naturally and intuitively

That doesn't feel any different from any normal skill acquisition. But I may have had the advantage of some neural mechanism absent in aspie brains.

Anyway, the whole process only took a few months. Ekman has som microexpression training CDs, highly recommended.
I graduated with good marks from a great school. And so far I'd have been, at best, 7 out of 10 on graduation day. After 20 successful years in the industry, I might get 4 or 5 depending on time constraints since I'd have to figure out some stuff from first principles.

Some of these questions aren't even necessarily relevant in getting a computer science degree let alone software development.
I would really like support for 64-bit integers and native 64-bit math.
I'm excited and motivated to learn by these posts, and I can tell others feel the same way, but I share this sentiment. To me, it even seems a little too fair to compare it to drivers and mechanics. It's more like a pitch to drivers about how to be a better car mechanic, when the target demographic actually includes drivers, stock car drivers, car mechanics, automotive designers, motorcyclists, motorcycle mechanics, pilots, submarine engineers, rocket scientists...
This article researches robots that explore unknown graphs and can place pebbles to distinguish nodes: "The Power of a Pebble: Exploring and Mapping Directed Graphs (1998)" by Michael A. Bender , Antonio Fernandez , Dana Ron , Amit Sahai , Salil Vadhan http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.2...
Do you think that aspies are less susceptible to Zynga games? I don't know either way but in my own experience aspie types that I have met seem much more likely to be hooked on games like WoW certainly.

I'm not sure that the comparison to gays works so well because by and large being gay doesn't affect your day to day relationships with other people apart from in specific circumstances.
Unless you act in a stereotypical gay fashion it's quite likely that nobody will ever know you are gay unless you tell them. I've met plenty of people whom I've known have been gay but in all likelyhood I've met countless more who have been gay and I've had no idea.

It's very hard to hide if you are an aspie or socially retarded in some way and it's something that is likely to affect your relationship with everybody who you meet. By and large these effects will also be negative since people are uncomfortable around people they regard as "weird".
What's the best textbook for this material (caching, concurrency etc.)?
It's pretty, looks well designed.

Why not validate it first? I think you should look for investors when you have first experience growing your first user base, see how the adoption amongst users will be etc. This is a difficult model to grow.
this is spam, go to the original source instead: http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming...

edit: the source is much better written too, screw that pathetic gigaom nonsense.
From the investors. Duh.
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Unless the slime the researchers planted was from the slime-mold being experimented upon we can assume that they react in the same way to other slime-mold's slime as to their own.
"But when you have no entrepreneurial community and the few that you have are publicly screaming at you to slack off"

Please stop furthering the myth that Europe has no startup scene.

"Here's hoping the French will have a chance to adjust before they destroy what little is left of their startup economy."

I'm not sure anyone knows how this will be implemented yet. Just like US startups are incorporated in Delaware, European startups can, and some are, be incorporated in countries like Luxembourg or the UK. That's just one example how things could work in practice. I think (at least part of) the French startup community is doing themselves a huge disservice at the moment. Drawing premature conclusions and throwing in gripes for good measure.
My question is how are the chances of getting caught reduced?

With an exchange, the world sees "BUY 100@$23.12." Some time later they see "TRADE 100@$23.12." With a darkpool, the public only sees the trade, not the quote.

How does seeing the quote make it easier to detect insider trading? Note that on a dark pool or exchange, the SEC gets to see all the data.

I would be willing to bet that dark pool trading...and might even be one of the underlying causes of the much hyped meltdown of the [mortgage] markets right around that time.

I'd take your bet. The meltdown of the markets occurred primarily as a result of OTC bond-like products, which are sold by salesmen picking up the telephone.
There aren't much relationship to OS concepts. The lock question can be arguably related but it's more for concurrency. They are pretty light weight questions.

OS questions would involve process/thread/fiber, scheduling, priority, multitasking, memory management, virtual memory, IPC, deadlock, distributed deadlock, interrupt/signal, input system, output system, GUI system, file system, disk system, IO caching, driver model, kernel space and user space, privilege and non-privilege operation, security model, user/process permission and privilege, file permission, authentication, authorization, etc.
Tis' a fine line! I throw in plenty of humble statements as I like to think the only thing I really know is that I know nothing (though this makes me want to learn more, question more). I also throw in bits and pieces of random things I've studied and hope the other person doesn't just find it interesting for a moment but rather goes home thinking about it. Of course, possible they don't find it interesting at all and just think I'm a wanker.
Does C run in Firefox? No? Well there you have your benefit.
You're right. Browsers are constraining innovation to a top-down approach, where browser vendors try to design and implement alternatives to things like TCP, POSIX.

What would be better is if browser vendors exposed a core low-level API to trusted installed web apps (as opposed to web pages) and then let open source build on that.

For example, instead of coding up IndexedDB and leaving no alternative, just provide proper POSIX, and let the database community do its thing.
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Although I understand that you want something to run faster, preemptive optimization is not always the best solution. It can lead to bad code and to weird behaviour. For example, arrays and especially associative arrays should not go inside double quotes, most of the times (I'm not sure if it's even possible). That way, double quotes are only useful with single variables, meaning that sometimes, even with double quotes, you would need to use concatenation.

And that's not even taking into account sanitation, because with double quotes it's easier to avoid it, and harder to notice.

I prefer choosing one of those types of quotes and sticking to it throughout the code. It makes code more readable and makes it easier to notice bugs and optimization problems.
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Works on version 24.0.1284.2 on my mac.
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How about emscripten then? https://github.com/kripken/emscripten

*Not that I would.
Who says they should?
Each participant is identified to the exchange (or ECN or ATS) by a MPID (market participant ID), but individual quotes on an exchange's limit order book are not tagged.
That the VAT taxes consumption, something the rich do proportionally less of, is not a "loophole". It's fundamental to the design of the tax.
The only thing is, if you don't wait until the user starts entering the password, the attacker can theoretically scrape the page with your username and find out the per-user image.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-dietrich-mateschitz-ignor...
I really like the first analogy, actually. A driver who knows all the details of how each engine works will be able to choose the car that provides the best fuel economy and performance, but in the end, the driver's status will really only be judged on the style and features of the car they choose.

i.e. the developer who chooses the slower zeroarray algorithm that still completes in reasonable time, but provides a better user interface and better feature set is still the better software developer (but perhaps the poorer computer scientist).
Another good article: http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:04ce3...
The very low prevalence of the condition means that people with Asperger's would have to enjoy vastly higher rates of reproductive success to become a substantial portion of the population. That doesn't seem to be the case.

And that presumes that there is a mostly genetic basis for the condition (the womb environment does seem to factor into autistic spectrum disorders).
I think most of your objections can be countered with "don't work with idiots." That none is hired should be managements top priority in every workplace.
I agree, Pulse is nice. There are others too.

My favorite app that covers and combines (but does not enforce) the utilitarian and visual options and on the iPad is the reddit client AlienBlue (Jasmine for youtube by the same guy, is good tool).
if you hit the space bar you can see a "map"; space again to return to where you were.
I was a bit frustrated at the time of writing that comment. And, to be fair, the js components (e.g. modal box) and the grid system turned out to be of good use. Although, bootstrap's LESS code leaves a lot to be desired. There's no system to it. Some styles are defined as mixins, others are hard-coded, variables are not used consistently, and so on.
Why are "external drives" available when there's a shortage of "internal" drives? The hard drives, as the article points out, are the same except in the external case a ... case is added.

It doesn't make a lot of sense.

Do harddrive manufacturers reserve a bunch of drives for the makers of external products (which, often, are branded by the drive makers themselves), which helps ensure that external drives continue to show up?
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Unless they have unfair contract terms, or are accepted under duress, or don't make terms/changes visible enough (e.g a tiny wording change written in 8 point in the middle of a 20 page contract may be unenforceable) etc - at least in the UK.
Well that seems to be a competitor. If you'd asked me the benefit of emscripten over this I wouldn't have known, but the question was about C.
Orbits are elliptical, AFAIK, and the two lengths are the dimensions of the major and minor axis of the ellipsis. The planned operational orbit was circular (750 x 750 km).
Faking this stuff doesn't work well in the long run. How to win friends and influence people says to give people genuine compliments.

I've gone through this kind of transportation. Certainly doesn't feel malicious to me. The main result is that people are a lot happier to be around me.

Your argument feels analogous to
someone worried by the teaching of logic. The students will become too clever and use their skills to outsmart the others.

I've seen hustlers use these skills for malice of course. Some get fooled by them, but they're pretty transparent to
most people if used insincerely.
"They can be very difficult to work with."

Don't you think that is a bit harsh? From what I have seen of Colin's work and contributions here on HN he seems like a pretty knowledgeable and decent chap to me. I rather enjoyed myself contemplating these questions - although I haven't had the nerve to submit completed answers!
Good idea. Its so simple that it might work. People want to know what you are doing (proof: social networks), and with this they would know if you are available to do something. I get it. Cool. It has good potential. I wish I had an app that would tell people when I was unavailable becuase I'm in a meeting or just coding. I know voicemail and SMS can do this, but those two options require that they contact me. I dont want any type of contact to be made from their part. They see the status and just leave me the fuck alone.

Good luck.
I have won the 2013 DV; still waiting on the letter from KCC.

I am sure applying and not winning will make you no harm.

Here are the official instructions for anyone interested:
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I'm not exactly sure how to phrase this question:

Are there any / what are the best examples of concurrent evolution of intelligence? What do we know about

For example, I know that Cephalopods like octopi seem to have developed a high level of intelligence despite being far removed (>500m years) from other known intelligent animals (mostly vertebrates). This shows us how a less centralized nervous system can produce "intelligence".

What do we know out the origins/early appearances of things like memory, reflexes, instincts…? Was it something like this slime stuff? Are there multiple implementations out there? Are they fundamentally limited or did our just happen to "advance" the most.
Nitpick re "edge of space": Low earth orbit starts at around 160 km and orbits decay rapidly below 200 km. This is 36 km altitude. But what I think most people miss is that to "be in space" the way most people think about space you'll need to enter orbit which means that once you get up to 160+ km altitude you need to go sideways at roughly 24 times the speed of sound - and then you're in orbit. Then when you're all done having your fun you need to take all that orbital energy and do something with it. The best idea so far is to use it to burn up a heat shield. This business of going vertical a little higher than jets and a lot lower than satellites is a little pretentious. But it's fun and it's Red Bull so who cares!!
great conextualization philbarr, also I would add that CS is just one of the foundations of software engineering but certainly not the only one and many would think not even the most important one.

Having said that if these questions tickle your intellectual curiosity go ahead and figure out their answers, just throw away the belief that you can become a valid/invalid software developer just because you can/cannot answer some questions.
During the peak prices after the flood, you could still get cheap(er) drives from companies that had long-term fixed-price contracts with the hard drive manufacturers. I'm guessing makers of external drives were one of those.
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No idea but many customers exploited that. The Internet Archive bought a lot and then gave away the enclosures to eg Noisebridge. Google is utterly useless to find photos of it, I remember them being on flickr.
I'm amazed that Oz surface up in this matrix. The number of people actually program in Oz for production purposes must be less than 100. It's a lovely language and I can miss somethings one could do in (Mozart)-Oz that I can't do in Haskell.
Alternatively http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/
Nice, been looking for a solution like this for quite some time. Excellent, well done too!

USD prices might be good though.
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I've been doing audio processing in Flash for a while (most recently, sample-based synthesis implementing a decent portion of SFZ and SF2, with 64-voice polyphony and filters) and I did have to push an unusual degree of effort into optimizing the sample copying code, with a Haxe macro that generates an optimal inlined loop for each combination of parameters. It can still use up most of a core when maxed out...

...however, I did some math and some extrapolation and determined that within the next three to five years this domain will be completely reasonable to approach from JS, driven by a combination of technologies:

-access to GPGPU from the browser. DSP work can generally be defined in terms of a shader, although it's still a very poorly understood area.

-more general-purpose cores, faster JIT performance, and possibly single-threaded hardware improvements as well. These things compound easily, so we could end up with a 50-100x larger JS performance envelope for this domain without even considering the GPU.

-maturation of the existing and planned audio APIs for common tasks. As you point out, this isn't interesting from a "ground-breaking tech" perspective, but in covering typical application needs, it's as important as the others since it's both convenient and optimized out of the box.

-maturation of cross-compilation technologies, smoothing over the "code has already been written" issue.

In a lot of ways, all JS has to do to be competitive is the "catch-up" work. It takes quite a while in tech time, but in human time, most of us will be around in the next decade.
The original is written in a much better style, indeed. I've submitted the story to HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027) as well and hope it catches up more than this entry.
Your last statement is quite possible but I've found two groups forming: those who like to go out and those who like to think yet have accepted going out, albeit in more interesting ways. The latter might go to an open-mic night or spend their evening seeing a new foreign film and later, a beer or two in a venue where people can actually hear each other. While those things are preferable to me, they are icing on the cake since the subjects discussed along the night are about a new study they read or a new connection they made while taking a walk that day. If these people ever need to go a few layers deeper because you've got them excited, they can easily go deeper. I'm 31 and I've probably personally met maybe 6 people like this...ever.
HFT is the result of barriers to entry falling. Any software engineer can save money for a couple of years and start an HFT shop.
>why are such languages more popular than their more ideologically pure cousins?

That has a pretty simple answer, it's because it was the only language available in the browser (and no, Java applets never really took off).

Had it been Ruby (unlikely given the timeline) or Python or even Perl instead, the situation would probably be much better today.
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The questions are actually quite basic. It has nothing to do with CS degree. Anyone desires to learn would have learnt them. It just makes you a better developer. And people who know them are not difficult to work with. If you as a team lead feels threaten by people who posses basic CS knowledge, you don't qualify to be a team lead.

Is this what we are coming to? The dumbing down of software development? Have the mainstream anti-intellectualism been spilled over into software development?
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First link I could find. Have a similar one from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18234930
"Commies"?

Really?

You don't understand the difference between putting up taxes and running the Gulag Archipelago?
A good example of an HTML5 app
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Why was the primary source of buying HD's initially newegg (online electronics store). If you are in the business of buying SO many HDD's, shouldn't you consider getting them directly from the manufacturers?
Also, I would like to know what other techniques they used to find / save space - any special compression software, any techniques to limit the storage of duplicate files, backing up your data to another data centre / on the cloud...
"It was an accident," quoth their marketing manager. Yeah, riiiiiiiiight.
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I think a lot of people confuse corporatism with capitalism.

Big businesses get subsidies, tax breaks, bank bailouts etc: Corporatism

Corporatism is good for businesses, capitalism is good for consumers.
Hi everyone,

This is my first real project. I'd really appreciate getting anyone's feedback on it. Is this useful??
interestingly, while i was exploiting this same trick for 2.5" drives (for a mini-itx machine with raid), i came across one company that was using "native usb" drives - i opened up the casing to find that the internal drive had a usb port instead of sata! (iirc it was the ones in a nice, soft-touch black rubber case - WD i think?)
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Sorry I deleted my comment because I had already discovered the answer.

(I asked what the meaning was when an orbit is written as XXXxYYYkm.)

From my reading of both articles together, I'm pretty you're correct - it's the interval that the satellite's altitude moves between (ie the axis's on the ellipse around the Earth, like you say)
I always thought that the choice of "developer" versus "programmer" swung on how multidisciplinary you had to be in order to be effective.
The red flag was this line in the blog that led to the questions: "If you can't answer the majority of the questions on these four papers, and you're working or intend to work as a software developer, you should ask yourself why".

This assumes an air of authority that the poster clearly cannot posses; that is, he does not have the right to judge whether someone is a valid software developer or not. Someone claiming this level of superiority seems to fit the personality type I described. Of course - I could well be wrong but that's what it sounded like to me.
There is no channel in Erlang. Each process has a mailbox. Each process is stateful. Node has only 1 and it works with callbacks as a way to do cooperative scheduling, Erlang has N of them and they work through message passing, using preemptive scheduling.

They have nearly nothing in common.
Glad you like it! More articles on similar topics will come for sure :)
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They don't have the same concurrency model.

JS uses callback-based stuff, cooperative scheduling, and has a single process to drive everything.

Erlang has message-passing to mailboxes, preemptive scheduling, and many fully isolated processes.